Death Row Prisoner Larry Swearingen May Be Innocent. Do Texas Courts Care? Death Row Prisoner Larry Swearingen May Be Innocent. Do Texas Courts Care?
Swearingen has faced execution four times for a crime scientists say he could not have committed.
Feb 20, 2013 / Feature / Jordan Smith
A Night at the Oscars for Israel-Palestine A Night at the Oscars for Israel-Palestine
Two brilliant nominees, The Gatekeepers and 5 Broken Cameras, along with other recent documentaries, have deepened our understanding of the conflict.
Feb 20, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Roane Carey
Scenes From a Bahraini Burial Scenes From a Bahraini Burial
Two years after the uprising in Bahrain began, protesters are still dying in the streets as the rest of the world looks the other way.
Feb 20, 2013 / Sharif Abdel Kouddous
Dave Zirin: Where ‘The Nation’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ Collide Dave Zirin: Where ‘The Nation’ and ‘Sports Illustrated’ Collide
Sports Illustrated, which rarely writes book reviews, recently covered Nation sports editor Dave Zirin’s Game Over.
Feb 20, 2013 / Press Room
Letter From Tanzania III: Using the Afghan ‘Peace Dividend’ Letter From Tanzania III: Using the Afghan ‘Peace Dividend’
Providing services to fight poverty overseas is a much better bang for our buck than stationing soldiers there.
Feb 20, 2013 / Bob Dreyfuss
Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Offers Summer Opportunities for Student Organizers Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Offers Summer Opportunities for Student Organizers
Two recent DC Fellows describe how the program transformed their careers.
Feb 20, 2013 / StudentNation / Naomi Ahsan, Jessica Morris, and StudentNation
Defend Walmart Warehouse Workers Defend Walmart Warehouse Workers
Implore Walmart CEO Mike Duke to stand with the Walmart warehouse workers in Chino.
Feb 20, 2013 / NationAction
At War With Art At War With Art
The Smithsonian’s show on the Civil War and American Art expresses a deep unease about the relationship between between art and history.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / James W. Loewen
A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson A Deliberate Pace: On Rachel Carson
On a Farther Shore captures the conservationist’s deep sense of geologic time and the forces of evolution.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Vivian Gornick
Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art? Wild Things: What Was Abstract Art?
MoMA’s monumental exhibition recalls the time when abstraction affected people like love or revolution.
Feb 19, 2013 / Books & the Arts / Barry Schwabsky